Word: kneerim
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Likewise, Darst preferred to work for The Advocate rather than--as the Fay House administrator asked her--resurrect a similar defunct Radcliffe publication. A member of the second Advocate editorial board that included women, Kneerim says, "We felt like pioneers...
...Kneerim agrees: "I felt like I was entering a vast city of sophisticated women." And Kay says, upon reflection. "You will never find so man, educated women in one place... I learned at Radcliffe that it wasn't a penalty to have a good mind...
Talking to dormmates until all hours of the night was an essential part of the Radcliffe experience then. "We never realized what a sense of unity we drew from each other," says Kneerim. "Radcliffe was a very friendly cozy place that would go to bat for your if you needed...
...Kneerim found out what happened if you took liberties. One night, she recalls, a Harvard friend drove up to the Quad in his brand-new MG. Kneerim and her friends sat around drinking champagne to christen the car, while the dorm's housemother peered through the window at them...
...Kneerim found herself put on social probation--meaning she had to be in the dorm each night by 8 p.m. for a week. Kneerim has few kind words for house mothers--"papery old ladies"--as compared to the "intellectual House system at Harvard...